{"id":656,"date":"2025-10-01T22:18:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T20:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dancityfestival.it\/mag\/?p=656"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:27:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T16:27:36","slug":"when-light-listens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dancityfestival.it\/mag\/en\/when-light-listens\/","title":{"rendered":"When Light Listens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<article>\n\n  <style>\n    .video-wrap { position: relative; width: 100%; padding-bottom: 56.25%; margin: 16px 0; }\n    .video-wrap iframe { position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; top: 0; }\n    .video-caption { text-align: center; font-style: italic; margin-top: 4px; }\n  <\/style>\n\n\n  <h2>From Fischinger to Giovinetto: one hundred years of audio-visual visions<\/h2>\n  <p><em>With the performance FEMINA in collaboration with Factory Fest \u2013 October 11, 2025, Foligno<\/em><\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n  <p>Throughout the twentieth century, artists, scientists and musicians pursued a single dream: to make sound visible and image audible. This journey spans a century of experimentation \u2014 from abstract symphonies to generative performance \u2014 and now reaches a new chapter with Giovinetto, on stage in Foligno on October 11 with <em>FEMINA<\/em>, in collaboration with Factory Fest.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>Origins: sound as form<\/h2>\n  <p>It all begins in the 1920s and \u201930s, when pioneers such as <strong>Oskar Fischinger<\/strong> and <strong>Mary Ellen Bute<\/strong> turned music into moving images. In their films, lines and circles behave like notes, anticipating the grammar of synaesthetic animation. At Canada\u2019s National Film Board, <strong>Norman McLaren<\/strong> literally engraved sound onto film, generating optical vibrations that became music. A new language was born in which seeing and hearing exchanged roles: image did not illustrate music \u2014 it <em>interpreted<\/em> it.<\/p><!-- INSERT AFTER: blockquote on synaesthesia -->\n<p>Already <strong>Wassily Kandinsky<\/strong>, in writings such as <em>Concerning the Spiritual in Art<\/em>, had intuited a direct relationship between sound and colour \u2014 a correspondence between acoustic vibration and visual tension. His thought deeply influenced early pioneers of moving abstraction such as Fischinger and Bute, grounding the idea that every form can be \u201cheard\u201d.<\/p>\n\n  <blockquote>The research of those years revolved around <strong>synaesthesia<\/strong>, understood as a perceptual shift between the senses. Not \u201cseeing music\u201d or \u201chearing colours\u201d literally, but <em>translating one sensory experience into another<\/em>, searching for a shared language between sound and image. This idea would traverse the entire twentieth century, from abstract cinema to today\u2019s immersive installations.<\/blockquote>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 0: Norman McLaren -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E3-vsKwQ0Cg?si=fS8EhOjRFuW3KbU5\" title=\"Norman McLaren \u2013 Dots (1940)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: Norman McLaren \u2013 Dots (1940)<\/div>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>The 1960s: electronics becomes language<\/h2>\n  <p>With the arrival of video, the image was no longer reproduced but generated. <strong>Nam June Paik<\/strong>, father of video art, built the <em>Paik-Abe Synthesizer<\/em> in 1969 \u2014 a machine capable of distorting and colouring television signals in response to sound. During his early performances, audiences accustomed to a stable TV image found themselves before waves and chromatic ripples behaving like magnetic currents \u2014 streams of light that seemed to expand and contract to the rhythm of the audio. Many viewers, letting go of narrative expectations, stood still for minutes, absorbed by this electric matter in transformation. Others described it as \u201chypnotic\u201d, \u201ccloser to meditation than entertainment\u201d. For the first time, television stopped broadcasting and started responding.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 1: Nam June Paik -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7UXwhIQsYXY\" title=\"Nam June Paik \u2013 Videofilm Concert (1965)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: Nam June Paik \u2013 Videofilm Concert (1965)<\/div>\n\n  <p>In the same period, <strong>Steina and Woody Vasulka<\/strong> turned electronic signals into plastic matter. In their experiments with oscilloscopes and tape machines, frequency became line and rhythm became light: figures deforming, doubling and dissolving in real time. Many critics called their work \u201celectric landscapes\u201d, an art of impulses rather than images.<\/p>\n\n  <p>In Italy, the tension between space and perception took shape. With works like <em>Spazio Elastico<\/em> (1967), <strong>Gianni Colombo<\/strong> built environments where audiences walked among luminous cords and moving walls: vision became physical experience. <strong>Ugo La Pietra<\/strong> worked on the interplay between individuals and the urban fabric, imagining \u201csensitive\u201d spaces able to react to human presence. Entering those installations meant losing oneself in unstable perception, where the body ceased to be a spectator and became part of the device.<\/p>\n\n  <p>These experiments opened the way to a new understanding of A\/V performance: not narrative, but sensory immersion.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>The 1970s\u2013\u201980s: feedback, computation and contemplation<\/h2>\n  <p>In the 1970s and \u201980s, the relationship between sound and image entered a decisive phase. The <strong>Vasulkas<\/strong>, pioneers of video feedback, built true image synthesizers: machines that translated sound into visual impulses and generated waves and light trails in real time. Eyewitnesses spoke of \u201clandscapes without matter\u201d, surfaces seeming to oscillate in space as if the gaze could touch sound.<\/p>\n\n  <p>At <strong>Bell<\/strong> and <strong>IBM<\/strong> labs, a new idea of the audio-visual artwork emerged: no longer gestural, but computed. Artists such as <strong>John Whitney<\/strong>, <strong>Lillian Schwartz<\/strong> and <strong>Laurie Spiegel<\/strong> began using computers as compositional tools. Frequently screened at experimental film festivals, Whitney presented spirals and figures rotating on musical ratios, inspiring wonder and puzzlement \u2014 some called it \u201cmathematics that dances\u201d.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 2: John Whitney -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TbV7loKp69s\" title=\"John Whitney \u2013 Arabesque (1975)\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: John Whitney \u2013 Arabesque (1975)<\/div>\n\n  <p><strong>Lillian Schwartz<\/strong>, collaborating with Bell Labs engineers, created films where computer-calculated forms intertwined with synthetic sound, leaving viewers unsure whether they were facing art or science. <strong>Laurie Spiegel<\/strong> composed sequences in which image and sound were generated by the same algorithm, suggesting that one day music and light would be programmed together.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Meanwhile, <strong>Brian Eno<\/strong> redefined perception itself. With ambient music and early light installations \u2014 seeds of <em>77 Million Paintings<\/em> \u2014 he proposed experiences where sound became an environment and light its visual echo. Critics spoke of \u201csoundscapes to inhabit\u201d, inviting contemplation and extended listening.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>The digital and the generative instant (1990s\u20132000s)<\/h2>\n  <p>By the 1990s, the computer moved on stage. Modular software such as <em>Max\/MSP<\/em>, <em>Jitter<\/em> and <em>TouchDesigner<\/em> enabled direct relations between audio signal and visual form. For the first time, the work was not edited but generated: each sonic variation could instantly transform the image.<\/p>\n\n  <p>This was the era of the <strong>audiovisual genre<\/strong>, in which sound no longer accompanied the visual \u2014 it created it. Artists like <strong>Ryoji Ikeda<\/strong> translated binary data into optical pulses (<em>datamatics<\/em>), building experiences oscillating between sensory perception and reflection on digital language. His work stages the tension between order and chaos: data becoming light, the bit turning into space.<\/p><!-- INSERT AFTER: last paragraph about Tarik Barri -->\n<p>Alongside these trajectories, artists such as <strong>Quayola<\/strong> and <strong>fuse*<\/strong> have pushed Italian research towards algorithmic and immersive visuality. In their works, data becomes a sensitive landscape and the machine a co-author: from Quayola\u2019s stratified iconographies and architectural morphologies to the luminous dramaturgies of fuse*, code is not just a tool but a <em>living matter<\/em> capable of generating time, space and relation.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 3: Ryoji Ikeda -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wJPXrO1cdg?si=vdYx7TpcqTVGxQOL\" title=\"Ryoji Ikeda \u2013 Datamatrix (2005)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: Ryoji Ikeda \u2013 Datamatrix (2005)<\/div>\n\n  <p>In parallel, <strong>Alva Noto<\/strong> sculpted silence. With minimalist sets he built architectures of glitches, impulses and voids \u2014 a fragmentary aesthetics where sonic form becomes visual structure, balancing control and interference. His dialogue with <strong>Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/strong>, also presented at Dancity, redefined the multimedia concert as a space shared between emotion and abstraction.<\/p>\n\n  <p><strong>Robert Henke<\/strong>, co-founder of Ableton Live, shifted the focus to light as material. In works such as <em>Lumi\u00e8re<\/em>, lasers did not illustrate music; they <em>built<\/em> it \u2014 tracing lines, intervals and silence. Henke embodied a new figure: the composer-programmer writing with time and light.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Finally, <strong>Tarik Barri<\/strong> opened a spatial frontier. Through immersive architectures and collaborations with artists such as Monolake and Thom Yorke, he created real-time navigable environments in which the audience does not watch from the outside but <em>enters<\/em> the work. His performances mark the passage from representation to <strong>digital presence<\/strong>: an art to be traversed rather than contemplated.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>From club culture to visual culture<\/h2>\n  <p>Alongside more abstract research, the UK club scene opened a new front. <strong>Coldcut<\/strong> \u2014 pioneers of audiovisual intelligence and founders of the <strong>Hex<\/strong> collective \u2014 were among the first to turn the DJ set into a true A\/V performance. With their software <em>VJamm<\/em> (early 1990s), they made it possible to play video like audio samples, anticipating modern VJing platforms by years. Their shows fused visual culture and electronic music into a synchronous flow of rhythm, images and message, carrying experimentation out of labs and into the club. A decisive turning point: the VJ became a performer, and remix culture found its first live audiovisual form.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 3bis: Coldcut -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/II_2KKYlEMQ?si=FMgXmG-BbmXy5nff\" title=\"Matt Black (Coldcut) on live video setup with VJamm (2006)\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: Matt Black of Coldcut on the live VJamm setup (2006)<\/div>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>Flying Lotus and the immersive spectacle<\/h2>\n  <p>While conceptual research was defining its languages, other artists brought them towards pop culture. Among them <strong>Flying Lotus<\/strong>, whose <em>3D stereoscopic<\/em> show became a pivotal moment \u2014 not for the visual effect alone, but for translating immersive A\/V logics into an accessible narrative language. His presence at <strong>Dancity Festival<\/strong> marked an important chapter: an off-track perspective relative to academic research, yet perfectly coherent with the evolution of the A\/V medium. Flying Lotus showed that experimentation can dialogue with pop without losing technical depth, bridging underground practice and large-scale spectacle.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>Dancity milestones<\/h2>\n  <p>Over the years, <strong>Dancity Festival<\/strong> has built a deep relationship with audio-visual arts. From the minimalist architectures of <strong>Alva Noto &#038; Ryuichi Sakamoto<\/strong> (2011) to the intensity of <strong>Ryoji Ikeda<\/strong>, from <strong>Robert Henke<\/strong>\u2019s laser explorations to <strong>Tarik Barri<\/strong>\u2019s navigable spaces, the festival has consistently explored dialogues between sound, image and perception.<\/p><!-- INSERT AFTER: opening paragraph of \"Dancity milestones\" -->\n<p>Among the most poetic moments, in <strong>2012<\/strong> Dancity also hosted the <strong>Quiet Ensemble<\/strong> with their installation <em>Natura Morta (Still Life)<\/em> \u2014 a work intertwining technology, chance and nature. Sounds and lights were generated by living and unpredictable elements \u2014 plants, fruits, water, electricity \u2014 reminding us that even error can become composition, and that the audiovisual realm is, above all, an ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n  <p>Equally meaningful was the performance by <strong>Murcof &#038; Vanessa Wagner<\/strong> (2014), where piano and electronics reshaped acoustic space as living matter. And the visual poetry of <strong>Ryoichi Kurokawa<\/strong>, fusing digital rendering and contemplative pacing, became one of the most immersive experiences ever presented in Foligno: works where sound crystallises into light and light becomes time.<\/p>\n\n  <p><strong>Ei Wada<\/strong> brought cathode-ray televisions back to life, turning them into musical instruments. Through direct contact with hands and body, he modulated electromagnetic fields to generate tuned and percussive sounds, as if the skin itself were a sensor. Halfway between art and play, the experience captivated everyone \u2014 from experimental die-hards to the simply curious, children included \u2014 proving that A\/V language can be at once profound and accessible, embodied and collective.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 4: Ei Wada @ Dancity 2011 -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BkziDsk6BMg\" title=\"Ei Wada \u2013 Braun Tube Jazz Band (Dancity 2011)\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: Ei Wada \u2013 Braun Tube Jazz Band (Dancity 2011)<\/div>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>Giovinetto: between science and perception<\/h2>\n  <p>Trained as a physicist, composer and visual artist, <strong>Riccardo Giovinetto<\/strong> works from a simple, radical premise: every sound carries a form. After years in the duo <em>OZMOTIC<\/em> \u2014 with releases on Touch alongside Fennesz and Biosphere \u2014 Giovinetto embarked on a solo path that fuses mathematical rigour and poetic intensity.<\/p>\n\n  <p>In <em>FEMINA<\/em>, presented at <strong>Ars Electronica<\/strong>, body and voice become sources of frequency. Light does not illustrate music; it is its visible consequence: a responsive environment in which each variation generates a form and each breath reshapes space.<\/p>\n\n  <!-- EMBED 5: Giovinetto \u2013 FEMINA -->\n  <div class=\"video-wrap\">\n    <iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cwNwHRPoa38\" title=\"Giovinetto \u2013 FEMINA (excerpt, 2024)\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"video-caption\">Watch: Giovinetto \u2013 FEMINA (excerpt, 2024)<\/div>\n\n  <p>The result is a reflection on identity and presence: an art that treats sound as living matter in continuous transformation.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>Dancity \u00d7 Factory Fest: a new chapter<\/h2>\n  <p>With <strong>Giovinetto<\/strong> and the collaboration with <strong>Factory Fest<\/strong>, Dancity renews its interdisciplinary vocation. This is not merely about hosting a show, but about joining a living history that began almost a century ago \u2014 a story that keeps inviting us to <strong>listen with open eyes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n  <hr>\n\n  <h2>\ud83c\udfa5 Videos &#038; insights<\/h2>\n  <ul>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1FfZQb-Zx0Y\">Steina &#038; Woody Vasulka \u2013 Electronic Art<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2djs3Y0aD1g\">Ryoji Ikeda \u2013 datamatics<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8KnknsHDbQ0\">Alva Noto &#038; Ryuichi Sakamoto \u2013 Live @ Dancity 2011<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2cVQ_mVmmFI\">Robert Henke \u2013 Lumi\u00e8re<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YoTixuhk2OY\">Tarik Barri \u2013 Monolake live visuals<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cfnktxwWOBU\">Ryoichi Kurokawa \u2013 unfold<\/a><\/li>\n    <li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/II_2KKYlEMQ?si=_8Qs0JoYTO73qOar\">Flying Lotus \u2013 3D Show at Dancity, Spoleto (IT)<\/a><\/li>\n  <\/ul>\n\n<hr>\n\n<h2>Event Information<\/h2>\n<p><strong>FEMINA \u2013 Audiovisual Performance by Riccardo Giovinetto<\/strong><br>\nPresented in collaboration with <strong>Factory Fest<\/strong> \u00b7 October 11, 2025 \u00b7 Foligno<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/factoryfest.it\/2025-femina-av\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">More info on Factory Fest<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\ud83c\udf9f\ufe0f <strong>Tickets:<\/strong> \n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diyticket.it\/events\/musica\/26718\/ff-25-riccardo-giovinetto-femina-av\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\nBuy on DIY Ticket<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>\ud83d\udce9 <strong>Reservations &#038; inquiries:<\/strong> \n<a href=\"mailto:factoryfest.tickets@gmail.com\">factoryfest.tickets@gmail.com<\/a> \u00b7 \n<a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/393890231912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp +39 389 0231912<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"dancity-donate-box\">\n  <a class=\"dancity-donate-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?business=info@dancity.it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/webstatic\/icon\/pp258.png\" alt=\"PayPal\" class=\"paypal-icon\" \/>\n    <span>Support Dancity<\/span>\n  <\/a>\n  <p class=\"dancity-donate-msg\">\n    Our project is independent and non-profit.<br>\n    If you enjoy what we do, you can support us with a small donation.\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fischinger to Giovinetto: one hundred years of audio-visual visions With the performance FEMINA in collaboration with Factory Fest \u2013 October 11, 2025, Foligno Introduction Throughout the twentieth century, artists, scientists and musicians pursued a single dream: to make sound visible and image audible. 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